John Oliver is not afraid to put his money where his mouth is. Back in February, realizing that President Trump gets most of his ideas from cable news, the Emmy-winning Last Week Tonight host purchased... continue reading

posted by newtboy 7 years 1 month 3 weeks ago • 601 views • 1:37

I finally managed to get my vacuum chamber working, and run the Tesla coil in it! Awesome effect on arcs, but RIP Tesla coil!

posted by Mekanikal 7 years 2 months 1 week ago • 539 views • 10:04

YouTube description: Meet Professor Jamie Seymour, he milks stuff. But nothing that moos, has hooves, wool or fur. He prefers to live life on the edge, milking the venom from the most venomous animals... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 176 views • 4:26

I really like to run my Tesla Coil in vacuum, so let’s build a vacuum chamber, or at least try!

posted by Mekanikal 7 years 3 months 1 week ago • 149 views • 7:03

YouTube description: Originally built by the Incas, the manmade salt pans in Maras, Peru, have endured for over 500 years. Beneath the Qaqawiñay mountains runs a salty fresh spring, which empties into... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,535 views • 1:20

...if he can read, it's at least clear that he doesn't read what he signs. Here he admits signing hundreds, much more than that, legal contracts without ever reading one. That's not good for a businessman... continue reading

posted by newtboy 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 550 views • 5:31

I never thought of sand as a non-renewable resource, but there's only a limited supply: and to make things worse, it keeps getting washed into the sea. At Cape May, New Jersey, the US Army Corps of Engineers... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 3 months 2 weeks ago • 1,756 views • 3:22

YouTube description: As the world’s largest technology manufacturers increasingly move toward creating products that are designed to be difficult or impossible to repair, Motherboard has started looking... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 7 years 5 months 3 weeks ago • 426 views • 9:15

At the age of 74, Meena Raghavan is the oldest known practitioner of Kalaripayattu, an ancient martial art from southern India. Since she was 7 years old, Raghavan has trained with the best of them. While... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 7 months 1 week ago • 1,407 views • 2:22

At Qaanaaq, in Greenland, there's IS18: an infrasound station that's quietly listening for nuclear tests — or any other large bang. Here's what, why, and a few words the man who, for years, has been... continue reading

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 8 months 3 weeks ago • 222 views • 4:08

There's a variety of visual problems and disturbances we all experience on a daily basis. Floaters! Blue entoptic phenomenon! Visual snow! Phosphenes! With simulations, Inés will run through all of them.

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 8 months 4 weeks ago • 1,089 views • 3:44

Canadian sprinting sensation Andre De Grasse runs a hundred metres in Jesse's shoes. Who's the better runner when conditions are the same?

posted by Mordhaus 7 years 9 months 2 weeks ago • 395 views • 2:45

YouTube description: Just as vinyl records have a pattern of grooves and ridges that contain the sound, talking tapes - which were originally developed in 1918 - work on the same principle. Along the... continue reading

posted by Aard Vark (oritteropo) 8 years 1 month ago • 688 views • 3:37

Economics Professor Randy Wray answers the questions: What is Money? Why is at accepted? What is the relationship between money & government? What backs up our money? Can the US government run out of money? ... continue reading

posted by radx 8 years 3 months 1 week ago • 153 views • 27:04

IFLScience: Still baffled by Einstein’s theory of relativity, or even the parts in the movie Interstellar when everyone experiences time differently? Well, this teenager’s explanation of special relativity... continue reading

posted by Zawash 8 years 6 months 2 weeks ago • 1,541 views • 7:34

Talk about a letdown. Check out this runner from Oregon celebrating his win a bit too early.

posted by newtboy 9 years 1 month 2 weeks ago • 1,320 views • 29 secs

A man punches another driver in a road rage incident with the police across the street, then calmly waits to be arrested. I wonder what happened to his car, they just left it running unattended in the... continue reading

posted by newtboy 9 years 2 months 3 weeks ago • 966 views • 3:25

YT: Ever wonder who controls the inner workings of the Internet? Like what happens after you type in a URL and hit enter, or who assigns IP addresses? A father of the Internet is here to explain.

posted by mintbbb 9 years 10 months 1 week ago • 175 views • 2:41

A bug in Google Chrome allows malicious websites to turn users’ computers into clandestine listening devices, a programmer discovered. Tal Atler, a web developer in Israel, discovered that once you... continue reading

posted by truth-is-the-nemesis 1 decade 4 months ago • 47 views • 4:06